Hi, Marshmallow, welcome to this forum. Let me introduce you to my friend, the “No True Scotsman” Just an example:
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Most of the things in this thread have little or nothing to do with Goth, or at least not just Goth. I will freely admit to being Goth and am proud of it. Goth was a genre of music started in the late 1970s as an offshoot of Punk music with bands like Bauhaus and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The Goth subculture is basically a music scene built around supporting and showing a love for this genre of music; Goths are fans of Goth rock. It is not a religion and has nothing to do with religion.
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Other Goths seem to disagree with you. Kind of what happens when you say “Communism is THIS” Some random folk will come and tell you “Communism is not THIS, is THAT”. So you tell them “But Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and Fidel Castro did THIS, and not THAT”. Guess what, they tell you “But they are not REAL communists” This fallacy has a name, “No True Scotsman” Look it up.
Of course, there are a lot more troubles with your first post! Even for a REAL Goth like you
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Silver is used worn for protection, especially against vampires. Kind of goes against your later comments that Goths are obsessed with vampires, drink blood,avoid daylight because they want to be vampires.
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But but, you are obsessed with vampires. And you drink blood, you told that. And you are a REAL Goth.
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Other than that I mostly only drink mead and cider, and that is for special occasions or socially. Without alcohol I would be an extremely antisocial person in clubs or at concerts where I don't know anyone because I suffer from anxiety, especially social anxiety. It helps a lot of people with social anxiety loosen up and this list has made it very clear that you disapprove of being antisocial. So which is it? Should we be social or antisocial?
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What about being social without alcohol? With God’s help, you can.
But to address the main point here..
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Some Christians even get tattoos because they believe the bible only referred to tattoos as a sin WHEN they are done to represent the dead or for ritualistic purposes because getting a tattoo for those reasons was (is) something Pagans do.
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Unlike for being a New Age Goth, there are rules to be a Christian that you have to follow. The importance of this rules comes for several reasons. The most important, God made them, and God decides who goes to heaven. But there are more reasons, and one is to avoid the application of the “No True Scotsman” fallacy. Do you want to see if somebody is Christian or not? See if he follows the Bible, all of it. Getting tattooed is not being a Christian.
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Nothing Marilyn Manson does or says matters. His music is not Goth and he does not represent the Goth community or goth people because he is not Goth.
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No True Scotsman. It appears so much in your rant.
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have read the bible at least once though, even if they do not believe in it.It's a decent book of fairy tales and mythological stories.
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“Fairy tales” is VERY offensive. And it is being said bya 34 year old woman, with a child, that calls herself a “Pagan Witch” and goes to Satanist weddings. Wow, just wow.
And you list a lot of diseases that you and your friends have. Have you thought of praying so those diseases will go? Instead of locking up yourselves during the day.
Just for fun, one more point...
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Bad behaviour often just means your child is trying to get yourattention because you are not spending enough time with them.
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Yes, that’s whay we have the rod for.
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I am a vampire and I am a Pagan.
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Oh, really? But that has nothing to do with being Goth,doesn’t it?